The East Hampton Town Board voted unanimously last Thursday to revoke all beach driving permits previously issued by the town clerk's office and declare that no permit issued by the town before or after the resolution confers the right to drive on the 4,000-foot stretch of ocean beach at Napeague popularly known as Truck Beach. Postcards mailed to permit-holders will act as temporary permits.
Montauk Inlet to Grow Wider and Deeper
East Hampton Town will soon enter into a project partnership agreement with the Army Corps of Engineers for long-planned improvements to the navigational channel in Montauk Harbor. Those improvements, a deepening and widening of the channel, are scheduled for the fall of 2023.
August 11, 2022
G.O.P. Congressional Hopefuls Debate Trump, Abortion, Guns
Anthony Figliola and Nick LaLoto, who are vying with Michelle Bond, for the Republican nomination for New York's First Congressional District, debated the issues with the League of Women Voters this week in advance of the primary on Aug. 23.
Aug 11, 2022
Year-to-Date Flight Numbers to Be Reviewed
Informed that cumulative 2022 air traffic at East Hampton Airport was down by about 28 percent through July, members of the Wainscott Citizens Advisory Committee found themselves on Saturday asking, “Really?”
Aug 11, 2022
Police & Courts
The house at 3 Spring Lane in Noyac, where two young women died in an early-morning fire on July 27, lacked the permit required under Southampton Town code for property owners who rent out their houses, the town confirmed this week. "There will be charges filed against the homeowners," an assistant town attorney said.
Aug 11, 2022
Just because there is flat water doesn’t mean lifeguards can relax. It was a green flag day up at Maidstone Park last Thursday when John Ryan Jr., chief of the town’s lifeguards, said guards needed to call in a Jet Ski for assistance for a father and son who were swimming in the calm waters but got too close to the jetty on an incoming tide.
Aug 11, 2022
A woman pulled a 2018 Subaru into the North Main Street I.G.A. lot on Aug. 2 and suddenly realized she was in the wrong vehicle. It was identical to her own Subaru, parked someplace else.
Aug 11, 2022
Government
The East Hampton Town Planning Board did not approve Hero Beach’s request to convert its basement into a kitchen, at its July 27 meeting. The sticking point was the Montauk motel’s refusal to restrict food service to “overnight guests” rather than just “guests,” and worries about how that seemingly slight difference might affect parking.
Aug 11, 2022
East Hampton Town’s code governing its rental registry may be modified to address updates that an assistant town attorney called “pretty obviously the product of forgery or falsified information.”
Aug 11, 2022
East Hampton Town's Coastal Assessment Resiliency Plan, which highlights a spate of ominous predictions as to how climate change will impact the town, is "a nation-leading effort to prepare this town for the future with a lot more water, one where residents will adapt to live with all that water rather than fighting a losing battle against it," one speaker said during a public hearing last week.
Aug 11, 2022
National Grid wants to construct two 20,000-gallon fiberglass water tanks at its East Hampton generating station at Cove Hollow Road, but the East Hampton Town Planning Board does not yet have enough information to vote on the plans.
Aug 11, 2022
Villages
Gundersen and Haney Are Wed
Peter Gundersen, a son of Martha and Peter Gundersen of Amagansett, married Samantha Haney, a California native and daughter of Jane and Keith Haney of Gulf Breeze, Fla., on April 16 in Pensacola, Fla.
Item of the Week: Camping at Montauk, Circa 1905
This engaging, relatable photograph shows a group of young adults posed in front of a tent, presumably camping at Montauk.
All Eyes on Sag Harbor Development Proposal
Affordable housing is a problem not just here, but nationwide, so it makes sense, especially given its size, that a 79-unit complex with housing above and retail space below proposed for downtown Sag Harbor is generating spirited conversation and debate. Some see it as welcome housing, others say its more of a "shopping mall with an affordable housing component."
